Exploitation of Ethos: Sarah Winnemuca and Bright Eyes on the Lecture Tour

Scholten, Pat Creech

Western Journal of Speech Communication, 41, 4, 233-44, F 77

Studies the nature and effect of the rhetorical strategies of Sarah Winnemucca, a Paiute Indian (1878-1884), and Bright Eyes, "the Ponca Girl" (1879-1882) who both served as spokeswomen for their tribes' struggles for Indian rights as citizens and human beings in post-Civil War America. (MH)